Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt Jr., the senior bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church, presides over the East Coast region for the 141-year-old historically African-American denomination. Long before his 2010 appointment to that post, he was known as a scholar and a leader in the Christian ecumenical movement. A former president of the National Council of Churches, Bishop Hoyt represented the CME Church at a celebration of Pan-Methodist full communion during the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa Fla. Earlier in the year he visited UM-related Duke Divinity [...]